Meta Ends Malicious Chinese and Russian Campaigns Aimed at Disinforming About the Ukraine War

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Meta has dismantled a large network of Russia and a smaller one China for displaying his propaganda activity on Facebook and Instagram with false content against support for Ukraine. The campaign organized from China was destined to affect the Senate elections that are going to be held in the United States next November, reports ‘The New York Times’.

The technology company has acted on the two networks, with no links between them, on its social networks Facebook and Instagram for detecting what it calls coordinated inauthentic behavior in a report of global intelligent threats.

The first network on which Meta has acted had its origin in China, and displayed their activity on Facebook and Instagrambut also in Twitter and two Czech social networks, as Meta details in a blog post. This network acted between autumn 2021 and mid-September of this year, against users from the United States and the Czech Republic, mainly with polarized ideological content on the occasion of the mid-term elections in the first case, and against government support. to Ukraine, in the second.

Specifically, this had created 81 accounts on Facebook, eight pages and one group, and two accounts on Instagram. Their follow-up was low. and, according to the company, those who interacted with the shared content “rated it as false.”

“Our automated systems removed a number of Facebook accounts and pages for various community standards violations, including phishing and lack of authenticity,” Meta adds.

Against Ukraine

The second network, from Russia and larger, directed its actions against European countries (Germany, France, Italy, Ukraine and the United Kingdom), with the publication of content about the war in Ukraine against this country and those who supported it.

The actions of this network were deployed through web pages, videos on YouTube, which were shared on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Telegram. They also launched petitions through sites like Change.org and Avaaz, and created content on LiveJournal. Sometimes they pretended to belong to the media such as ‘Spiegel’, ‘The Guardian’ and ‘Bild’.

On Facebook, their presence rose to 1,633 accounts, 703 Pages and one group, and on Instagram, to 29 accounts. She also spent about $105,000 on ads on both social networks.

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